Adulteration claims Rival California wine pricing debate
The San Francisco Christian Advocate accuses adulteration of pure California wine as a market rule, while vineyard men call the editor a reckless falsifier. A side-wheel steamer, 270 feet keel, 40 feet beam, and 16 feet depth, is under construction at Detroit for the Detroit and Cleveland route. It will cost about $275,000 and be ready for the 1886 season.
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San Francisco
Detroit
Cleveland
Great Lakes
Gum chewing aids learning says Macon schoolmarm
A Macon Georgia schoolmarm reports six bright pupils given gum out of twenty five. They answered twenty one of twenty nine problems correctly while six gumless pupils managed only eight. The piece asserts gum improves education.
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Macon
Georgia
Banruptcy Law and wage disputes spark fear and mock ruin
The text critiques bankruptcy law as a tool favoring weak businessmen, recounts 1870s panic exacerbated by then law, notes a Connecticut lock factory cutting wages then raising lock prices, and mentions a Jacksonville proclaiming Florida as paradise amid dull infrastructure. It also covers Mrs Allison in Oregon, a Tenderfoot City masquerade mockery, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett inheriting a fortune. multiple disparate items form a mosaic of era concerns.
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Tur
Congress
Garretts Inherit Monumental Estate And Deer Park Cottage
Miss Garrett, aged 28, will inherit a costly residence at Monument and Cathedral streets with its plate and furnishings, the Garrett cottage at Deer Park where her father died, and a third of the testator’s personal estate. The piece also includes a Croker notebook anecdote about Talleyrand and a French officer.
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Monument
Cathedral Streets
Garrett
Deer Park
Miss Garrett
John Wilson Croker
Talleyrand
France
M. Talleyrand
Connecticut eighty year olds list shows aging trend
F H Nash catalogs 6223 residents aged 80 plus, about 1 percent of 1880 state population. The ledger includes 23 centenarians, mostly women, with ages peaking 84 to 89 and a handful over 90. Also notes a Siberian town Ilim with no school and odd governance, per Moscow and London reports.
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F. H. Nash
Connecticut
Bridgeport Standard
Found Room Helps Shoppers Reclaim Lost Goods
A large dry goods superintendent explains frequent forgetfulness by shoppers who pay with banknotes and leave without change or their purchases. Goods are placed in a found room recorded by reception date, then claimed by customers once they recall their purchase. The practice, described by the store official, notes most items are recovered, from cents to dresses, with new customers often grateful.
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New York Sun
India
Lal Behari
Public Men Recollections by Ben Perley Poore
Excerpt recounts 1840s patent disputes over India rubber patents Day Goodyear Chaffee and the influence peddling surrounding grants. It also describes the Potomac aqueduct project at Georgetown with engineer Major William Turnbull surmounting rock and mud obstacles. Additional passages cover Mohamad Pacha visit to Washington and a disorderly Indian war dance with Minor details about Little Crow and a Pawnee funeral.
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Commissioner of Patents
Washington Courts
Committee of Congress On Patents
Day
Goodyear
Chaffee
Potomac River
Georgetown
William Turnbull
Corps of Topographical Engineers
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Alexandria Canal
Mohammed Pacha
Suite
Washington
Arsenal
Floyd
Cullen
Sherman
Campbell
Miss Gardner
Little Crow
John C. Smith
Ninth-street Presbyterian Church
Congressional Burial
Mr. Smith
Loup
Pawnees
Mix
The True Heaven on Earth in Marriage Liberty
The speaker contends true heaven is the union of a compatible man and woman with liberty for the woman. He rejects male domination and expresses preference for mutual love over control, renouncing aggression and endorsing respectful partnership. He frames liberty as essential for happiness in marriage.
Old Uncle Ike Improvises Craft Amid Streetwise Dialogue
A blacksmith carpenter named Uncle Ike demonstrates basic carpentry at his cabin with a boy, praising self-reliance and joking about three dollars a day. The exchange reveals pride in skill, generational differences, and the tension between aging craft and youth. The scene ends with musings on marriage and a note about lace painting.
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Ike
Simon
Young Mulkittle
Arkansaw Traveler
Discovery of great statues on Easter Island described
A Navy Department note reports the discovery of colossal statues and sculptured tablets on Easter Island in the South Pacific. German naval officers collected artifacts during a brief visit, prompting plans for further expeditions by Germany, France, and the United States to study and preserve the remains for ethnological collections.
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Navy Department
Layard and
Botta
Ninevah
Rawlinson
Hincks
Egypt
Asia Minor
Europe
Schlieman
Hellespont
Troas
Mexico
Yucatan
Guatemal
United States
Nile
Euphrates
Table Lands
Central America
Planes
North America
Rapanui
Easter Island
South Pacific
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
Baird
Valparaiso
Samoan Islands
Smithsonain Institution
Laster Island
Upsher
France
Smithsonian
America
Washington
Philadelphia Times
Notable Autographs Of Fifty American Authors A Reader Describes
A Utica Observer writer surveys a book of autographs from about fifty well known American authors and editors. It details each signature’s style from H M Alden to Stoddart, noting back hands, flourishes, legibility, and distinctiveness. The narrator adds he would not ascribe character or genius to any signature.
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Utica Observer
H. M. Alden
Harper’s
Baird
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Noah Brooks
H. M. Boyesen
K. C. Stedman
S. Conant
Harper’s Weekly
George William Curtis
George Cary Erpleston
Sidney Howard Gay
Richard Watson Tilder
I. L. Youman
O. B. Bunes
Henry Drisler
Julian Hawthorne
Charles Dudley Warner
Mr. Lathrop
M. Rossiter Johnson
C. Buel
J. H. Morse
Maurice E. Egan
Mr. Stoddart
Escape by Olga Liubatovich Foils Police Capture
In a Cornhill Magazine piece titled Escape, Olga Liubatovich eludes a police stakeout by slipping from a guarded house. With 22 kopecks she buys a handkerchief and nuts, disguising herself, then exits via a back stairs to a ground floor shop. She stays calm, delaying capture through swift, instinctive moves and relentless cunning.
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Olga Liubatovich
Olga
Stepmak
Cornhill Magazine
Wife’s spelling tale from a Boston Transcript quote
A Boston Transcript remark features Fogg presenting a letter from his wife who jokes about her spelling. She was a longtime schoolteacher who relied on the spelling book while teaching but struggles with spelling in personal letters.
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Fogg
Boston Transcript
Nail trade revolution to replace iron with steel nails
Reports claim a revolutionary shift in the nail industry as steel nails are set to supplant iron ones, promising changes in manufacture and use across the trade. The announcement suggests a lasting impact on builders and hardware suppliers.
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